Day 1: Tue, 24 Oct. (Venue - Kuwait College of Science and Technology)
Day 1: Tue, 24 Oct. (Venue - Kuwait College of Science and Technology)
Opening Session
(Speakers:Prof. Khalid Al-Begain, President of KCST
Prof. Latif Ladid, Chair at 5G World Alliance,
President of IPv6 Forum, University of Luxembourg
Dr. Ammar Alhusaini, Deputy Director General of Central Agency for Information Technology, Kuwait
Location:Main Auditorium)
Keynote 1: Roberto Di Pietro ,King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
(Talk Title: From an Electronic Cash System to DeFi - A journey through cryptocurrencies evolution and their security issues.
Location: Main Auditorium)
Keynote 2: Stephan Nilsson,CEO and co-founder of UNISOT
(Talk Title: Disrupting AI - The Public Blockchain and IPv6 as Catalysts for Monetizing AI Models and Creating New Revenue Streams
Location: Main Auditorium)
Networking Break (Coffee) + Poster Session
(Location: First Floor)
Keynote 3: Prof. Jorge Zubelli, Khalifa University
(Talk Title:Local Volatility Estimation Driven by the Available Data in Option Pricing and Risk Management
Location: Main Auditorium)
Keynote 4: Srdjan Krčo, Co-Founder and CEO of DunavNET
(Talk Title: Towards transparent and trustworthy agri-food supply chain
Location: Main Auditorium)
Panel 1: The Role of AI and Blockchain in Advancing Financial Services and Applications
(Panelists:Talib Behbehani , Mousa Alsulaimi, Dr. Safa Otoum, Seth Sadiq
Location: Main Auditorium)
Technical Session BC-1
(Chair: Ismaeel Al Ridhawi
Location: Room 1)
Lunch + Poster Session
(Location: Second Floor)
Keynote 5: Abdallah Shami
(Talk Title: Zero-Touch Network Security, Use-Case Driven Analysis
Location: Main Auditorium)
Keynote 6: Hoda Al Khzaimi
(Talk Title: Improving Cryptographic Primitives Attack Frameworks
Location: Main Auditorium)
Panel 2: Blockchain Applications and Services, Challenges and Opportunities
(Panelists: Rami AlSahhar, Sulaiman Alhasawi, Basil Al-Othman, Dr. Huda Alrashidi
Location: Main Auditorium)
Technical Session BC-2
(Chair: Yaser Jararweh
Location: Room 2)
Social Gathering (Coffee)
(Location: First Floor)
Day 2: Wed,25 Oct.(Venue - Jumeirah Messilah Beach Hotel)
Day 3: Thu,26 Oct.(Venue - Jumeirah Messilah Beach Hotel)
Keynote 7: Satya N. Gupta, Chairman of Blockchain for Productivity Forum
(Talk Title: Convergence of Blockchain and IPv6 - Creation of a Universal Public Digital Infrastructure
Location:Conference Hall 1)
Keynote 8: Salil Kanhere, University of New South Wales
(Talk Title: Practical and Extensible Decentralised Identity Management
Location:Conference Hall 1)
Networking Break (Coffee)
Panel 3: The Role of Young Professionals in Cybersecurity and Futuristic Technologies
(Panelists: Ali Alkazimi, Ali Al-Khaled, Ahmed Hajeyah, Husain Ma'ad
Location:Conference Hall 1)
Technical Session: BC-7
(Chair: Moayad Aloqaily
Location:Conference Hall 1)
Technical Session: BC-8
(Chair: Yaser Jararweh
Location:Conference Hall 2)
Tutorial 1: Integration of SDN and Blockchain for IoT Networks
(Presenters: M. Karakus, E. Guler, S. Turner, S. Uludag
Location:Conference Hall 1)
Technical Session: BC-3
(Chair: Mohammed Faisal
Location:Conference Hall 2)
Tutorial 2: Oracle problem in Blockchain
(Presenter: Ayana T. Aspembitova
Location:Conference Hall 1)
Technical Session: BC-9
(Chair: Chibli Joumaa
Location:Conference Hall 2)
Lunch (Location: Conference Foyer)
Technical Session: BC-4
(Chair: Omar Khattab
Location:Conference Hall 1)
Technical Session: BC-5
(Chair: Mohammed O. Adam
Location:Conference Hall 2)
Technical Session: BC-10
(Chair: Ismaeel Al Ridhawi
Location:Conference Hall 1)
Technical Session: BC-11
(Chair: Moayad Aloqaily
Location:Conference Hall 2)
Technical Session: BC-6
(Chair: Ismaeel Al Ridhawi
Location:Conference Hall 1)
Technical Session: DS-1
(Chair: Haidar Ramadhan
Location:Conference Hall 2)
Technical Session: BC-12
(Chair: Yaser Jararweh
Location:Conference Hall 1)
Technical Session: DS-2
(Chair: Ehtesham Hassan
Location:Conference Hall 2)
Gala Dinner and Awards Ceremony
(Location :Conference Hall 1)
Group Tour
| Technical Session | Paper ID | Title | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|
| BC-1 Teams Link | 4284 | QLAMMP: A Q-Learning Agent for Optimizing Fees on Automated Market Making Protocols | Dev Churiwala and Bhaskar Krishnamachari |
| 8145 | A Comprehensive Distributed Framework for Cross-silo Federated Learning using Blockchain | Prateek Durgapal, Parth Kataria, Garv Garg and Anshu S. Anand | |
| 9553 | Decentralized and Trustful Supervised Learning over Blockchain | Yamina Khenfouci and Yacine Challal | |
| 378 | Deep Learning PUF-based Item Identification for Supply Chain Management in a Distributed Ledger Framework | Carmelo Felicetti, Antonella Guzzo, Giuseppe Manco, Francesco Pasqua, Ettore Ritacco, Antonino Rullo and Domenico Saccà | |
| 528 | AI-Assisted Investigation of On-Chain Parameters: Risky Cryptocurrencies and Price Factors | Abdulrezzak Zekiye, Semih Utku, Fadi Amroush and Oznur Ozkasap | |
| 6520 | A dynamic decision support system for the best-fitting Blockchain platform selection | Muhammad Nasim Bahar, Michal Ries and Kristián Košťál | |
| 952 | Unveiling Ethereum's Hidden Centralization Incentives: Does Connectivity Impact Performance? | Mikel Cortes-Goicoechea, Tarun Mohandas-Daryanani, Jose Luis Muñoz-Tapia and Leonardo Bautista-Gomez | |
| 3057 | A Reputation System for Distributed Intelligent Blockchain Decision-Making | Charles Rawlins, Jagannathan Sarangapani and Venkata Sriram Siddhardh Nadendla | |
| BC-2 Teams Link | 1098 | Prediction of Blockchain Transaction Fraud Using a Lightweight Generative Adversarial Network | Charles Rawlins, Jagannathan Sarangapani and Donald Wunsch |
| 5431 | Modelling Blockchain-based Systems using Model-driven Engineering | Ebtehal Nassar, Sherif A. Mazen, Stefan Craß and Iman M. A. Helal | |
| 1997 | Securing Federated Learning against FGSM Attacks with Adaptive Trust Scores and Blockchain Updates | Ammar Abasi, Neveen Hijazi, Moayad Aloqaily and Mohsen Guizani | |
| 5471 | Towards Privacy-Aware Federated Learning for User-Sensitive Data | Muhammad Asad and Safa Otoum | |
| 1943 | Blockchain-based Federated Learning for Decentralized Energy Management Systems | Abdulrezzak Zekiye and Öznur Özkasap | |
| 1183 | BETA-FL: Blockchain-Event Triggered Asynchronous Federated Learning in Supply Chains | Mayank Gulati, Narges Dadkhah, Benedikt Groß, Gerhard Wunder, Jovan Glavonjic, Aleksandar Pavlovic and Aleksandar Tomcic | |
| 589 | Automating and Decentralising Satellite-based Emergency Mapping | Robert Cowlishaw, Red Boumghar, Annalisa Riccardi and Ashwin Arulselvan | |
| 1637 | DeepBlock: a Collaborative Intrusion Detection Framework Based on Blockchain and Deep Learning | Monirah Al-Ajlan and Mourad Ykhlef | BC-3 Teams Link | 1071 | Blockchain-based key management solution for Clustered Flying Ad-Hoc Network | Maroua Abdelhafidh, Nesrine Zaghdoud, Nadia Charef and Adel Ben Mnaouer |
| 9112 | Blockchain enabled Private 5G Networks: A Primer | Nisita Weerasinghe, Tharaka Hewa, Anshuman Kalla, Mika Ylianttila and Madhusanka Liyanage | |
| 9576 | Automation of Blockchain Network Setup in offering Blockchain as a Service (BaaS) | Jyostna Grandhi, Mahesh U Patil and Lakshmi Eswari | |
| 7785 | Application of blockchain technologies to improve the quality of microgrid network management | Volodymyr Khylenko | |
| 5503 | Blockchain based fog computing network architecture | Ivan Fedorov and Sergey Bezzateev | |
| 1052 | High-Speed Secure Vanity Address Generator for User Convenience in Blockchain Networks | Md. Mainul Islam, Md. Kamrul Islam and Mohammad Hammoudeh | |
| 5467 | An Adaptive Blockchain-based Decentralized Network Computing | Jongho Seol, Kyle Kentner, Indy N. Park, Shital Joshi and Nohpill Park | |
| 6556 | Scaling A Blockchain System For Load Balancing of DNS Servers Using Heuristic Sharding | Fahad Rahman, Chafiq Titouna and Farid Naït-Abdesselam | |
| BC-4 Teams Link | 5849 | Blockchain-Based Heuristic Study to Secure UAVs From GPS Spoofing Signals and External Attacks/td> | Abdullatif Baba, Basil Alothman and Omar Khattab |
| 373 | Communicate Vehicle Accident Data to Blockchain for Secure and Reliable Record-Keeping Using Android Automotive Application | Luc Gerrits, Thomas Mabrut and Francois Verdier | |
| 8517 | Blockchain-Based Psychological Information Sharing Platform | Xirong Xao, Mohamed Rahouti, Senthil Kumar Jagatheesaperumal and Kaiqi Xiong | |
| 6278 | Blockchain for Email Security: A Perspective on Existing and Potential Solutions for Phishing Attacks | Jamal Al-Karaki, Amjad Gawanmeh and Claude Fachkha | |
| 8935 | Towards the Optimization of the Spanish Land Registry System | Yeray Mezquita, Javier Parra, Javier Prieto and Juan Corchado | |
| 4804 | Enhancing Parcel Tracking with Blockchain: A Secure and Efficient Solution for Large Shipments of Medicines and Drugs | Saud Alhoshan, Mohammed Alalem, Eisa Jokhdar, Dana Kharrat, Nidal Nasser and Lutful Karim | |
| 359 | Breaking Boundaries: Exploring Blockchain's Impact on UAE Organizations | Ahmed Shuhaiber, Nishara Nizamuddin and Amal Amer | |
| 9648 | DocCert: Nostrification, Document Verification and Authenticity Blockchain Solution | Monther Aldwairi, Mohamad Badra and Rouba Borghol | |
| BC-5 Teams Link | 6189 | Pluggable Integrity layer for Property Registration | Ras Dwivedi, Mukul Verma, Tanmay Yadav and Sandeep Shukla |
| 8014 | Blockchain-Based Countermeasures for Luxury Goods Counterfeiting: A Focused Survey | Marko Jevtic, Sajjad Khan, Jorao Gomes Jr. and Davor Svetinovic | |
| 6016 | Schooling to Exploit Foolish Contracts | Tamer Abdelaziz and Aquinas Hobor | |
| 5675 | Towards Citizen-Centric Services using Blockchain-Powered Digitalization of Public Sector Processes | Sion Israel Sion, Kaiwen Zhang and Alain April | |
| 4122 | Verifiable Credentials with Privacy-Preserving Tamper-Evident Revocation Mechanism | Li Xu, Tianyu Li and Zekeriya Erkin | |
| 8661 | ParaSpell XCM SDK: A new protocol for interoperability in Polkadot Paraverse | Dušan Morháč, Kristián Košťál, Viktor Valaštín and Ivan Kotuliak | |
| 5666 | CoMMA Protocol: Towards Complete Mitigation of Maximal Extractable Value (MEV) Attacks | Dev Churiwala and Bhaskar Krishnamachari | |
| 651 | Echidna: A New Consensus Algorithm for Efficient State Machine Replication | Rui Morais, Paul Crocker and Simão Melo de Sousa | |
| BC-6 Teams Link | 157 | Exploring Arbitrary Real-life Problems in Proof-of-Useful-Work: Myth busting? | Tatjana Davidovic, Milan Todorovic, Bharat Sharma and Dusan Ramljak |
| 520 | PoWVDF: Progressive Real-Time Block Rate Targeting | Yuehua Wu, Feihu Yan, Yunxiao Wang and Wenzhi Chen | |
| 3855 | Poster Paper: Towards Blockchain-based AI Alignment Using a Proof of Personhood Consensus Mechanism | Alexander Neulinger | |
| 2187 | SmartNIC-Powered Multi-threaded Proof of Work | Disha Patel and Sean Choi | |
| 9340 | Proof-of-Federated-Learning-Subchain: Free Partner Selection Subchain Based on Federated Learning | Boyang Li, Bingyu Shen, Qing Lu, Taeho Jung and Yiyu Shi | |
| 3027 | A Real-Time Performance Model for NFT Chains | Kyle Kentner, Jongho Seol and Nohpill Park | |
| 4333 | Dynamic membership management for a permitted blockchain | Fjölnir Þrastarson and Gísli Hjálmtýsson | |
| 6669 | Socio-technical Principles of Decentralized Protocol Design | Harry Halpin, Jaya Brekke and Marios Isaakidis | |
| BC-7 Teams Link | 6653 | The Greed Trap: Uncovering Intrinsic Ethereum Honeypots through Symbolic Execution | Mahtab Norouzi, Mounir Elgharabawy and Kaiwen Zhang |
| 1209 | Implementing and Evaluating a Blockchain-Based Dematerialized Public Procurement System with HyperLedger Fabric and OCDS | Papa Diadia Ba, James Tamgno Kouawa and Kora Ahmed Dooguy | |
| 7610 | Measuring Stakeholder Agreement and Stability in a Decentralised Organisation | Sarad Venugopal and Heiko Aydt | |
| 8950 | A technique to avoid Blockchain Denial of Service (BDoS) and Selfish Mining Attack | Md. Ahsan Habib, Md. Mainul Islam, Md. Motaleb Hossen Manik, Tamzid Rahman, Rushmila Shabneen, Fahim Ahmed Mondal and Raihan Hussain | |
| 5394 | SoK: Essentials of BFT Consensus for Blockchains | Gang Wang and Mark Nixon | |
| 1103 | Refining Blockchain-powered Industrial Internet-of-Things Architecture for Improved Performance | Ishaya Gambo, Timilehin Ogundare, Michael Magreola and Temitope Ajayi | |
| BC-8 Teams Link | 4791 | A Framework for Asynchronous Cross-Blockchain Smart Contract Calls | Michael Sober, Giulia Scaffino, Marten Sigwart, Philipp Frauenthaler, Markus Levonyak and Stefan Schulte |
| 9360 | Cross-Chain Atomic Swaps without Time Locks | Ras Dwivedi, Tushar Singla and Sandeep Shukla | |
| 1072 | Model-Driven Approach for Generating Smart Contracts for Access Control | Issam Al-Azzoni and Saqib Iqbal | |
| 7288 | Design requirements for secured and cost-efficient Blockchain-based data exchange frameworks in healthcare | Shahrin Chowdhury and Anca Delia Jurcut | |
| 433 | A Blockchain Node Organizing and Auto-Scaling Architecture for the Internet of Things | Riham Elsaadany and Guy Bégin | |
| BC-9 Teams Link | 7641 | Secure Multi-party Computation for Digital Assets Custody Purpose - Analysis of Open-source Implementations | Daniel Roszak and Zakwan Jaroucheh |
| 7738 | Secure and Decentralized Generation of Secret Random Numbers on the Blockchain | Pouria Fatemi and Amir Goharshady | |
| 7999 | Blockchain CBDC Security Threats using STRIDE | Jaqueline Hans, Sajjad Khan and Davor Svetinovic | |
| 8274 | Parallel Committees: High-Performance, Scalable, and Secure Distributed Replication System Using a Novel Sharding Technique | Siamak Solat and Farid Naït-Abdesselam | |
| 574 | Mining User Behavior in Decentralized Applications for Blockchain Trust and Security Analytics | Shengwei You, Aditya Joshi, Andrey Kuehlkamp and Jarek Nabrzyski | |
| 4790 | Blockchain-based consent management for privacy persevering and transparency in intelligent surveillance systems | Fehmi Jaafar, Darine Amayed, Wissam Salhab, Mohamed Cheriet and Hajer Bouani | |
| 9425 | Blockchain Technology in IoT and IIoT Environments: Solutions and Challenges | Saad Alghashmari and Abdulaziz Alnori | |
| 4042 | SoK: Blockchain for Industrial Internet of Things | Gang Wang and Mark Nixon | |
| BC-10 Teams Link | 2310 | Towards a framework for analyzing the suitability of DLTs for integration in the IoTs | Guido Perscheid and Juergen Moormann |
| 1212 | Securing Cyber-Physical Industrial Systems Against False Data Injection Attacks: A Hybrid Detection Approach | Khalil Guibene, Nadhir Messai and Marwane Ayaida | |
| 1525 | A distributed EMR data storage scheme based on LWE | Haotian Luo, Niansong Mei, Chong Du and Caoyi Yu | |
| 5704 | Opening Pandora's Box: an Analysis of the Usage of the Data Field in Blockchains | Eder John Scheid, Sebastian Küng, Muriel Franco and Burkhard Stiller | |
| 7555 | Blockchain-based data sharing platform customization with on/off-chain data balancing | Stefan Behfar, Frank Théodoloz, Cyril Schranz and Marzie Hosseinpour | |
| 1444 | DLT-based Personal Data Access Control with Key-Redistribution | Fadi Barbara, Mirko Zichichi, Stefano Ferretti and Claudio Schifanella | |
| 9594 | How decentralized intelligence relates to big data analytics | Stefan Behfar | |
| 5136 | A New Direction of Blockchain Data Representation: Compressing Big Data and Computation-based Verification | Abdelkader Laouid, Mostefa Kara, Mohammed Al-Khalidi, Khaled Chait, Mohammad Hammoudeh and Ahmed Aziz | |
| BC-11 Teams Link | 8343 | IoT Data Sharing Scheme Based on Blockchain and Homomorphic Encryption | Caoyi Yu, Niansong Mei, Chong Du, Haotian Luo and Qian Lian |
| 9030 | Securing Medical Records Using Private Blockchain Technology | Basil Alothman, Mariam Alenezi, Danah Alhamdan, Mariam Almutairat, Zahraa Almousa, Chibli Joumaa and Murad Khan | |
| 1273 | Optimizing Read Performance in Lightweight Blockchain with Cooperative Storage Scheme | Han Wang, Hui Li, Zixian Wang, Feng Zhao, Yao Yao, Tuanfa Qin, Ping Lu and Jiaoli Shi | |
| 7248 | Risk-Free Interest Rates in Decentralized Finance | Ben Charoenwong, Robert Kirby and Jonathan Reiter | |
| 9368 | A Framework for Digital Asset Transaction Roundtrip Risk Evaluation | Saminu Salisu and Caitlin Egen | |
| 588 | Challenges of Blockchain adoption in financial services in China's Greater Bay Area | Xiongfei Zhao and Yain-Whar Si | |
| 5937 | Qwallet: A Hybrid Cryptocurrency Wallet using Quantum RNG | Muhammad Muneem Shabir and Kaiwen Zhang | |
| 346 | Routing Fee Adjustment Strategies in Payment Channels | Bence Ladoczki and Zhaojie Luo | |
| BC-12 Teams Link | 2841 | Web3 and Blockchain for Modernizing the Reseller Market | Håkon I. Frøland, Edward Palm, Katina Kralevska and Danilo Gligoroski |
| 3315 | Artwork NFTs Online Trading and Transaction Cancellation: A Smart Contract Application | Elsi Ahmadieh and Nour El Madhoun | |
| 6601 | Metaverse through Blockchain and Intelligent Networking: A Comprehensive Survey | Mohammad Alja'Afreh, Sahel Alouneh, Muath Obaidat, Ali Karime and Abdulmotaleb El Saddik | |
| 7175 | Incentivising Building Data Availability and Accessibility Using Tokenized Data Assets | Sarad Venugopalan and Heiko Aydt | |
| 1309 | Advancing Decentralized Finance: A Comprehensive Pool-based Liquidity Protocol | Kristián Košťál, Muhammad Nasim Bahar, Richard Gazdík and Michal Ries |
| Technical Session | Paper ID | Title | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|
| DS-1 Teams Link | 4109 | A Smart Network Intrusion Detection System for Cyber Security of Industrial IoT | Fadi Alzhouri, Hardik Gunjal, Preetkumar Patel, Ahmad Hammad and Dariush Ebrahimi |
| 4080 | Identifying Candidate Pages for Shortcuts in a Website for Site Personalization and Adaptation | Haider Ramadhan | |
| 8359 | Data Architecture Framework For Data-Intensive Applications | Moamin Abughazala, Mohammad Sharaf and Henry Muccini | |
| 3047 | Arabic Web Page Classification with AraBert and Mixture vectorization Methods: Analysis using K-NN, LSTM and Naive Bayes | Hicham Ghouch, Karima El Majdoub, Abdelmounaim Kerkri and Mohamed Amine Madani | |
| 9468 | Towards Arabic Multimodal Dataset for Sentiment Analysis | Abdelhamid Haouhat, Slimane Bellaouar, Attia Nehar and Hadda Cherroun | |
| 4100 | Detecting Distracted Drivers using Convolutional Neural Networks | Mohamad Tarabin, Mariam Mohamed Alketbi, Hamad Rashed Alfalasi, Mohammad Alsmirat and Yousef Sharrab | |
| 4859 | The Role of Emojis in Sentiment Analysis of Financial Microblogs | Ahmed Mahrous, Jens Schneider and Roberto Di Pietro | |
| 5659 | Bias Correction in Urban Building Energy Modeling for Chicago using Machine Learning | Shovan Chowdhury, Fengqi Li, Avery Stubbings, Joshua New, Ankur Garg, Santiago Correa and Kevin Bacabac | |
| 933 | Incorporating Data Preparation and Clustering Techniques for Workload Segmentation in Large-Scale Cloud Data Centers | Mustafa Daraghmeh, Anjali Agarwal and Yaser Jararweh | |
| DS-2 Teams Link | 9379 | Epileptic Seizure Detection using Novel CNN with Residual Connections | Zainab Abualhassan, Ehtesham Hassan, Imtiaz Ahmad and Sa'Ed Abed |
| 2143 | Thermography-Based Early-Stage Breast Cancer Detection Using SVM | Tina Zavvar, Ismaeel Al Ridhawi and Ali Abbas | |
| 4955 | Deep Federated Learning for IoT to Improve Healthcare Operations | Haya Elayan, Moayad Aloqaily and Mohsen Guizani | |
| 1730 | Modular Simulation Environment Towards OTN AI-based Solutions | Sam Aleyadeh, Abbas Javadtalab and Abdallah Shami | |
| 8739 | My Household' Application: A Smart Mobile Application for Household Management | Ahmed Shuhaiber, Hamdah Almenhali, Meera Almansoori and Noura Alhamed | |
| 310 | Machine Learning Based Preemptive Diagnosis of Parkinson's Disease Using Saudi Clinical Data: A Preliminary Case Study on Saudi Arabia Dataset | Sunday O. Olatunji, Abdulaziz Alzahrani, Abdulaziz Alsubaie, Osamah Aldahlan, Ibrahim Alnafea, Abdullah Alamri, Mohammed Imran, Mohammad Aftab, Abdulrahman Almuhaidib and Jamal Alhiyafi | |
| 3114 | Securing Domain Name Systems With Blockchain | Joshua Theoder, Binusha Shabu Metharath and Sahel Alouneh | |
| 2998 | Lung Cancer Survival Time Prediction Using Machine Learning and Deep Learning Techniques | Qanita Bani Baker, Enas Khwaileh, Marwa Alharbi and Yaser Jararweh | |
| 936 | Image Retargeting Techniques Identification using Supervised Deep Learning | Ruba Kharsa, Rouaa Alzoubi, Mohammad Alsmirat and Mahmoud Al-Ayyoub |
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